Books, booksellers and libraries of the ancient world

What were books like in the ancient world? How were the libraries organized? Answer the delicious little book of Stefano Manferlotti «Books, booksellers and libraries of the ancient world» edited by Langella for the collection ‘O scarrafone (pp. 48, 6 euros) and on departure from June 26.

In this essential but very well-documented writing, the author accompanies us in the suggestive world of the ancient book. Often giving the floor to protagonists such as Aristophanes, Plutarch, Catullus, Martialtakes us into Greek and Roman bookstores and libraries, both public and private. Portraits of passionate collectors also emerge, who even then were willing to do crazy things in order to possess the most beautiful and rarest specimens.

Stefano Manferlotti He is professor emeritus of English literature at the University of Naples Federico II. He has published numerous volumes and essays covering broad sectors of English literature, from Renaissance theater to the 19th-century novel to modernist and postmodern fiction. Among the most relevant monographs, Anti-utopia stands out. Huxley Orwell Burgess (Palermo, Sellerio, 1984), Novel and ethnicity in Great Britain (Naples, Liguori, 1995), James Joyce (Catanzaro, Rubbettino, 1997), Hamlet in parody (Rome, Bulzoni, 2005), Shakespeare (Rome, Salerno Editrice, 2010), Elizabethan Red. Essays on Shakespeare (Naples, Liguori, 2017). He has translated works by Dickens, Chesterton, Melville, London, Orwell into Italian. One of his annotated translations of Orwell’s Animal Farm is forthcoming from Marsilio of Venice.

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